Improvement in bale-ties



T. R. PORTER.

Bale-Tie.

No. 209,858. Patented ocr. 29,1878.'

IL PETERS. PMOTO-IJTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTONRD. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE TIMOTHY It. PORTER, OF SYRAOUSE, NEW' YORK.

IM PROVEM ENT IN BA LE-Tl ES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 209,358, dated October 29, 1878 application led July 11, 1878.

To all whom t may concern..-

Beit known that I, TIMOTHY E. PORTER, of Syracuse, New York, have invented. a certain Improved Bale Tie or Buckle, of which the following is a specification:

My device is made to facilitate the locking and securely holding of bale-straps. It consists in the peculiar formation and construction of the locking part of `the bale-tie, as more clearly appears in the following description-` and accompanying drawing, in which- VFigure 1 is a perspective view of the baletie detached. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, with the ends of the bale-tie connected.

The general configuration of my improved tie is like several others now well known, the variation therefrom being principally in the locking part. The tie is formed from a flat metal plate,A,wrought or cast. Nearone edge of this there is an oblong slot, a, of barely suficient width and length to pass the end of a bale-strap through. There is another opening through the plate A, the base of which at o is parallel with but enough broader than the slot a to allow the band to pass the bar at e either way without turning the buckle. The sides of this larger opening are inclined inward at d d, and are terminated in front by a straight bar, which is parallel with the base o, and-of sufficient width to admit the band to settle down on the bar without pinching the band. This bar is cut into at its center at e, as shown in the drawing. The two ends at e are` bent out of the plane in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. l. Thus constructed,

position on both ends of the bar at e withoutany danger of unequal pressure upon the edge of the strap or on one end of the bar, that in some ties frequently ruptures the strap or breaks the buckle, as it in this case bears equally upon the two bars at e, as seen by the dotted lines, Fig. 2.

A bale-tie thus formed is stronger and morereadily and securely applied, with less danger of breaking or being displaced, than any other with which.' l am acquainted.

Having thus fully described my improved bale-tie, I claiml l. A 4reversible bale-tic constructed as herein described, having both ends at e turned outward in opposite directions from the plane of the face, as and for the purposes specilied.

2. In the reversible bale-tie, the ends at e formed as described, in combination with the two inclined sides d and the slot a, in the manner and for the purposes speciiied.

' T. R. PORTER.

Witnesses:

O. D. F. BROWN, H. H. HoYT. 

